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INSECTAj HYMENOPTEllA. 
?nuncla, and venusta, Cairo, hrevipennis^ P* 46, Red Sea, id. l.c.) A. distin-^ 
(/uenda, Schenck, S. E. Z. xxxii. p. 256, Weil burg and Mecklenburg j A.prce- 
ieataj Smith, Ent. Ann. 1872, p. 108, S. Devon : spp. nn. 
Apides. 
Hermaphroditism in Anthophora acervorum, Ap>is mtllijica^ and Nomada 
haccata, is recorded by Smith, Pr. E. Soc. 1871, p. xiv ) and in N. fucata by 
Schenck, 1. c. p. 335. 
Lithurgus dentipeSy Smith, Megachile lanatUy F. (pi. xix. figs, llfl, b),fasci- 
cidata, Sm. (tigs. 1-10), F. (figs. 12 & 12a)y Xylocopa chloroptera, 
St. F. (pi. xxii. figs. 1, a, fe), X. cestuans, L., Apis Jloralis (figs. 2, a, h, c), and 
dorsata, F. (tigs. 3, a, h), figured, with details of economy, and habits &c. re- 
corded, by Horne, Tr. E. S. vii. p. 176 et seq. 
Epeoloides ccecutiens occurs in Nassau on Ballota nigra, probably parasitic 
on Anthidium manicatum j it occurs with Macropis lahiata near St. Peters- 
burg : Schenck, 1. c. p. 257. 
Stelis octomacidata is recorded from Sidmouth by Smith, Ent. Ann. 1872, 
p. 94, and figured, ibid, frontisp. f. 3. 
Osmia. M‘Lachlan (Ent. M. M. viii. p. 93) notices an instance of apparent 
failure of instinct in a species which for a long time failed to discover its own 
nest. Hudd (ibid. p. 109) considers this caused by a defect of sight. 
Chelostoma. Giraud, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) i. p. 391, adopts Smith’s views 
in preference to those of Schenck, with regard to this genus and Heriades ; he 
also corroborates Smith in giving 3 joints (instead of 2) to the maxillary palpi 
of H. truncorum. 
Megachile anthracma, ^io..,=fascmdata, Sm., $ : Smith, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 193. 
M. mystacea and rvjiventris, Q(\x^v.,—larvata, Gerst., § : Gerstacker, Arch. f. 
Nat. xxxvii. p. 350. M. brevis, : economy described and figured by Reed, 
Canad. Ent. iii. p. 210, f. 38. 
Anthophora. Lichtenstein, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) i. Bull. p. Ixxvi et seq., 
describes the nests and parasites of a Spanish species (near Jiabellipes, Lep.), 
the very fluid honey of which has the execrable odour of Hemerobius, and 
whose deserted nests are utilized by 3 or 4 species of Osmia, the economy of 
which is referred to. 
Merops apiaster. De S61ys-Longchamps, Bull. Ac. Belg. (2) xxxi. p. 566, 
records this bird from Belgium, with its crop containing nothing but Bombus 
t&i'restris and lapidarius. 
Bombus. B. lucorum is often mistaken for terrestris in the north of 
England : Gordon, Scot. Nat. i. p. 19. B. mastrucatus, Gerst., occurs in 
Nassau, and is apparently distinct from lapidarius: Schenck, S. E. Z. xxxii, 
p. 257. “ Fish-tail ” hairs from leg of humble-bee are described and figured 
in Sci. Goss. 1871, p. 140, fig. 73. 
Apis mellijica. Simmonds, under the head The Honey Trade,” gives some 
interesting statistics of bee-culture in various countries : Pharm. J. & Tr. (3) 
pp. 167, 183, 205. Vogel’s observations on the principles of bee-breeding are 
translated in Am. Nat. v. p. 17. Smith (Pr. E. Soc. 1871, p. v) notes the men- 
tion by Pepys of an observatory bee-hive in 1665. Giraud, Ann. Soc. Ent. 
Fr. (5) i. Bull. p. Ixiii, records the occurrence, near Paris, in the middle of 
October, of an enormous swarm of bees. On artificial swarming, cf. M‘Lure, 
